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| Ex-Brazil football chief pleads not guilty in U.S. after extradition | |  By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Nate Raymond ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Brazilian chief Jose Maria Marin pleaded not guilty to bribery charges in a U.S. court after being extradited on Tuesday from Switzerland in the corruption case that shook world football's governing body FIFA. Marin, 83, who headed Brazil's preparations to host the 2014 World Cup while president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, had bail set at $15 million and a judge ordered him placed under house arrest. Marin appeared to have trouble standing during the hearing, which Dearie paused briefly to ask if he were feeling well.
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| Thousands march in Romania as toll from nightclub fire reaches 32 | |  By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Thousands of people protested across Romania on Tuesday, demanding cabinet resignations as the death toll from a nightclub fire reached 32, with dozens more people in hospital critically hurt. In Bucharest, over 20,000 people marched to the government headquarters and the interior ministry, and protests spread out in the central Romanian cities of Brasov and Ploiesti. More rallies were being announced on Facebook across Romania in coming days.
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| Bulgarian police protest benefit cuts, in challenge to government | | | By Angel Krasimirov SOFIA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Bulgarian policemen, firemen and prison guards staged a spontaneous protest on Tuesday against cuts to their pensions and benefits, testing the authority of the centre-right government. The demonstrators blocked major roads in the capital Sofia and held rallies in several other cities, demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova, who is trying to force through the changes. Street protests have grown in Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member, in recent years. |
| Brazil's ex-football chief pleads not guilty to U.S. charges | |  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The former president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, one of 14 people indicted in a corruption case that has rocked the football world's governing body FIFA, pleaded not guilty in a U.S. court on Tuesday. Jose Maria Marin appeared in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, after being extradited to the United States from Switzerland. Marin, 83, was among seven officials from FIFA who were arrested in May in a dawn raid at a Zurich hotel. U.S. prosecutors have accused Marin of taking bribes in connection with sports marketing rights. ...
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| Taliban claim killing of Pakistani journalist | |  By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - A gunman on a motorbike shot dead a Pakistani journalist in the country's restive northwest on Tuesday and hours later the Taliban claimed the killing, bringing to 71 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Pakistan since 2002. Zaman Mehsud, 38, was a journalist working for the Pakistani Urdu newspaper Daily Umet and SANA news agency, and also worked for the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
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| Exclusive - Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because some activity tied to the accounts allegedly took place in these countries, a senior Vatican source said. While most of the media focus of the Vatican's murky finances has for decades centred on its official bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), a department called the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), acted as its own financial powerhouse.
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| Candidate for FIFA presidency Sexwale warns against 'sponsor activism' | |  By Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major sponsors of world football went too far when they issued calls last month for the resignation of FIFA President Sepp Blatter, South African businessman Tokyo Sexwale and candidate to succeed Blatter, said on Tuesday. In September, Swiss authorities said they were opening a criminal investigation into Blatter, who has led FIFA since 1988. It was the latest blow to FIFA's reputation after U.S. prosecutors announced indictments in May accusing top football officials and marketing executives of multi-million dollar bribery schemes over 24 years.
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| FIFA reform will be limited, says head of panel proposing changes | |  By Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Swiss lawyer heading up a committee charged with reforming the structure and management of world soccer body FIFA says major changes to the organization's voting structure and imposing term limits on executive committee members will be difficult to achieve in the short term. Francois Carrard, a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) director general, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that his committee supports a 12-year term limit for FIFA's president, but such limits on executive committee members may not be the best course of action. "There are situations in some countries where you have wise leaders who could be useful for more than eight or 12 years," Carrard said before speaking at an international conference on sport security in New York.
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| German soccer HQ raided over 2006 World Cup payment | | | By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police and tax investigators raided the headquarters of Germany's football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched the homes of officials to investigate suspected tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. The raids focused on 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) the DFB transferred to world soccer's governing body FIFA in 2005 - adding another layer to U.S. and Swiss investigations into allegations of corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. The Frankfurt state prosecutor last month launched a monitoring process - a step before a formal investigation - into the payment. |
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