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| Athletics-Former IAAF head Diack targeted in corruption inquiry | |  By Chine Labbé PARIS (Reuters) - Lamine Diack, the former head of world athletics, has been placed under formal investigation in France on suspicion of corruption and money laundering following a complaint from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). There is a large-scale corruption investigation at soccer's FIFA while athletics is fighting a desperate public relations rearguard battle in the face of continual doping issues. According to French news channel iTELE, the investigation is focused on suspicions that payments were made in return for not revealing the widespread doping of Russian athletes.
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| French police question Benzema in soccer sex tape inquiry | | | French police questioned Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema on Wednesday in connection with an inquiry into an alleged attempt to blackmail fellow-France soccer international Mathieu Valbuena, a police source said. Investigators are looking into allegations of attempts to blackmail Valbuena using sex video footage and they took several others, including former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse, in for questioning in mid-October Benzema's name came up during phone taps in relation to the inquiry opened last July, said the police source, speaking on condition of anonymity as is standard practice in France for police officers without official communications roles. |
| Maldives declares state of emergency as turmoil deepens | | | By Daniel Bosley MALE (Reuters) - The Maldives declared a state of emergency for 30 days on Wednesday citing a threat to national security, as President Abdulla Yameen sought to shore up his power over the Indian Ocean island nation following a suspected assassination attempt. The authorities acted after discovering explosive devices near Yameen's official residence and the main mosque in the capital Male, as well as stashes of weapons believed to have been stolen from army stores. "Because these would be a threat to the public and the nation, the National Security Council advised taking immediate steps to protect the people of Maldives," Attorney General Mohamed Anil said in a live televised address. |
| Islamic State affiliate in Egypt insists it brought down Russian plane | |  Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate dismissed in an audio message on Wednesday doubts that it had downed a Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing all aboard, and said it would tell the world how it did so in its own time. Sinai Province, an Egyptian group loyal to Islamic State, said in a statement the same day that it had brought down the airliner "in response to Russian air strikes that killed hundreds of Muslims on Syrian land". The claim was dismissed by Russian and Egyptian officials.
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| France ends law banning blood donation from homosexual men | | | France has decided to end a more than 30-year old law that banned homosexual men from donating blood, a measure originally put in place to stop the spread of diseases such as HIV. Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Wednesday discrimination against potential blood donors on the basis of sexual orientation was unacceptable because it presumed that homosexual men all had HIV. After a review of the measure since 2012, Touraine opted to lift the exclusion that has been in place since 1983 and was subsequently reinforced three times. |
| Romanian PM Ponta quits after protests, paves way for new cabinet | |  By Radu-Sorin Marinas and Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta quit on Wednesday, in a surprise move that will probably produce a new cabinet led by a technocrat, after street protesters demanded resignations over a deadly fire in a Bucharest nightclub at the weekend. Ponta is the country's only sitting premier to face a trial for corruption, and he was already under pressure to quit from the political opposition and President Klaus Iohannis, who defeated him in last November's presidential election. After an emergency coalition meeting, their leader, Liviu Dragnea, said the priority was "to preserve stability" of the country.
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| Tunisian lawmakers suspend membership in ruling party, threatening split | |  By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - Thirty lawmakers from Tunisia's ruling party suspended their membership on Wednesday and threatened to resign in protest over what they called attempts by President Beji Caid Essebsi's son to control the party. It is a further sign of infighting between two camps within Nidaa Tounes party, which is at risk of splitting up and losing its strong position in the North African state's parliament to Islamist party rival Ennahda. Any unravelling within Nidaa Tounes could bring instability to Tunisia, which launched the Arab Spring revolts in 2011 and has since won praise for its largely peaceful transition to democracy after the overthrow of autocrat Zine Abidine Ben Ali.
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| Lebanon's speaker calls first parliament session in months | |  Lebanon's parliament speaker on Wednesday called parliament to convene next week in the first attempt for months to bring deeply divided politicians together to pass laws vital to keeping the paralysed state afloat. Lebanese politicians, bitterly divided by their own rivalries and wider conflict in the region, have been unable to take even basic decisions, including where to dump the country's rubbish. "The resumption of legislative work has become more than a necessity for the country," parliament speaker Nabih Berri said in a statement, calling the session for next Thursday and Friday.
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| "Dolus eventualis" in spotlight again as South Africa court considers Pistorius' fate | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - That South African Olympic and Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp when he fired four shots through a locked toilet in his home is beyond doubt. It was the crucial element in High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa's decision in the orginal trial to convict Pistorius of culpable homicide instead of the more serious offence of murder. When the state opened its appeal on Tuesday seeking to change the conviction to murder, one media commentator even called it "Dolus Eventualis Day".
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| India moves towards long-awaited bankruptcy reform with draft bill | |  The government on Wednesday published long-awaited proposals to overhaul an outdated and overburdened bankruptcy process, calling for public comment on what could become the country's first unified bankruptcy code. If adopted, the changes would bring in "insolvency professionals" to run the resolution process, and set up creditor committees to reach a verdict on an ailing company's future in up to 180 days, removing government involvement and ending decades of judicial gridlock.
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| Tortured by Islamic State, rescued before execution: freed hostages recount ordeal | |  By Isabel Coles ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The last thing that came to Saad Khalaf Ali's mind as his Islamic State interrogators smothered him with a plastic bag was his two wives and children. The former policeman is one of many Iraqis to have suffered at the hands of Islamic State, which tortures, executes or beheads anyone deemed immoral or an opponent of its ideology and its goal of creating a caliphate across the Muslim world. Saad withstood the punishment but succumbed to psychological pressure when the militants threatened to slaughter his entire family.
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| Hundreds march in Central African Republic in support of army | | | Hundreds of people marched through the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, including members of the country's transitional council, to press for the national army to be rearmed, a Reuters witness said. The march was guarded by security forces and U.N. peacekeepers and is the latest sign of pressure for the restoration of the army, which was sidelined when mainly Muslim rebels from the Seleka group took power in 2013. Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza appealed to the U.N. mission (MINUSCA) on Monday to return weapons confiscated from the army to allow it to help keep the peace. |
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