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| Swiss extradite FIFA official Napout to U.S. in corruption probe | |  FIFA Vice-President Juan Angel Napout, president of the South American football confederation CONMEBOL, was extradited to the United States on Tuesday to face corruption charges, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice said. Napout, a Paraguayan, had ben detained in Zurich this month on a U.S. warrant accusing him of accepting bribes worth millions of dollars in connection with the sale of marketing rights to football tournaments in Latin America. The justice office also said Eduardo Li, former president of the Costa Rican football federation, had dropped his appeal against a ruling in September ordering his extradition to the United States.
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| White House says no excuse for budget deal not being completed quickly | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There is no excuse for not quickly completing a spending bill being negotiated by U.S. lawmakers to finance the government through September 2016, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday. Republican congressional leaders said earlier on Tuesday that important progress had been made towards agreement on a deal for a $1.15 trillion spending bill ahead of a Wednesday deadline, but Democrats said energy provisions were still outstanding. (Reporting by Susan Heavey; Writing by Mohammad Zargham; Editing by Diane Craft)
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| Brazil police raids, ethics probe weaken Rousseff foe | |  By Silvio Cascione BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police searched the home of lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha on Tuesday as part of a series of anti-graft raids against senior political figures, dealing a blow to the man who opened President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment proceedings. Hours after the raids, Cunha suffered another setback when the house ethics committee voted to investigate him for hiding Swiss bank accounts, further eroding his standing.
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| Contentious Syrian refugee measure likely to die in U.S. Congress | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican-backed legislation that would slow the entry of Syrian refugees into the United States will not be included in a must-pass spending bill and is likely to die in Congress, lawmakers and aides said on Tuesday, as they rushed to finalise the funding measure. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 Democrat in the House of Representatives, said members of his party would back measures to tighten a U.S. visa waiver programme if they were included in the bill, but would balk at the refugee provision. "The Syrian refugee bill I don't expect to be in there.
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| Los Angeles shuts public schools after threatening email | |  By Alex Dobuzinskis and Sara Catania LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles shut down the United States' second-largest public school system on Tuesday after officials received a threatening email mentioning backpacks and packages, two weeks after a married couple inspired by Islamic State killed 14 people in San Bernardino just 60 miles (100 km) away. The unprecedented move left some 643,000 students of the Los Angeles Unified School District and their families scrambling to make alternate arrangements and drew criticism as officials in New York said they received the same threat and deemed it not to be credible. A law enforcement source told Reuters that Los Angeles authorities ordered the closure to allow a full search of about 900 public school facilities without consulting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which takes the lead on any potential terrorism investigation.
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| CSA charges 'intermediary' with trying to fix Twenty20 games | | | Cricket South Africa (CSA) made the announcement on Tuesday without revealing the identity of the individual. Its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit has charged a perpetrator under the ruling body's Anti-Corruption Code. "The intermediary has been charged with contriving to fix, or otherwise improperly influence, aspects of the 2015 Twenty20 Challenge Series and with failing or refusing, without compelling justification, to co-operate with an investigation carried out by CSA's designated Anti-Corruption Official," CSA said in a statement. |
| Delhi CM Kejriwal says office raided, calls Modi a psychopath | |  Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said his office was raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday on the orders of Narendra Modi, in the latest clash between the feisty local politician and the prime minister. The CBI was not raiding Kejriwal's office, said a senior official of the investigating agency, who declined to be identified as he was not authorised to speak to the media. CBI investigators were searching the office of Rajendra Kumar, principal secretary of the Delhi government, near Kejriwal's office, the official said.
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| L.A. school threat linked to German Internet address - spokeswoman | |  A bomb threat sent electronically that prompted the closing of the entire Los Angeles school district was linked to an Internet address in Frankfurt, Germany, a spokeswoman for the school district said. Los Angeles school district spokeswoman Shannon Haber said the threat was sent via email to a district board member and came through an Internet protocol, or IP, address from the German city.
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| FIFA's Blatter proclaims innocence, denounces "Inquisition" | |  Suspended FIFA President Sepp Blatter again proclaimed his innocence in a corruption scandal gripping the world soccer body as he prepares to testify this week before the group's ethics panel. "I will fight on for my rights and at the end of this week present my view before the adjudicatory chamber with great conviction and a firm belief in justice," he said in a letter to FIFA members released to the media. "I am suspended but not isolated and not at all mute." FIFA ethics investigators in November called for sanctions against Blatter and European (UEFA) soccer chief Michel Platini, both of whom were suspended from their posts for 90 days on Oct. 8 pending a full investigation.
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| Cameron's 'Brexit' riddle: Row with EU or row with Eurosceptics? | |  By William James and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - When David Cameron urges European Union leaders on Thursday to do a deal to keep Britain in the bloc, he will face a riddle that has haunted Conservative prime ministers for three decades: a row with Europe or a row with Eurosceptics at home? Cameron's bid to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership of the bloc ahead of a referendum he has promised by the end of 2017, has hit the rocks over a demand to make working EU migrants wait four years before getting some benefits. "My expectation is that by the time we get to February something will be offered which will be presented as a great success, but that it will still be inconsequential." Baker said he has 136 Conservative lawmakers on his mailing list, indicating that more than a third of Cameron's 331-strong parliamentary party may be toying with the idea of a 'Brexit'.
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| Burundi nearing civil war after flare-up - U.N. rights chief | | | Burundi has moved closer to civil war after insurgents attacked military camps last week and authorities responded with house searches, arrests and alleged summary executions, the U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday. The fighting in the capital Bujumbura last week killed almost 90 people, the worst clashes since a military coup was foiled in May. It follows months of sporadic violence and assassinations, mostly in the capital, between supporters and opponents of President Pierre Nkurunziza. U.N. human rights office spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly told a news briefing that in November alone, U.N. monitors had recorded 56 incidents of extrajudicial killings and 452 cases of arbitrary arrests and detentions, while 389 arbitrary detained people were released. |
| Former Serbian secret policemen face war crimes retrial in The Hague | | | By Thomas Escritt AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges at a United Nations court on Tuesday ordered the retrial of two Serbian secret police officials who were acquitted two years ago of crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Appeals judges found that Jovica Stanisic, former head of Serbia's State Security Service (DB), and Franko Simatovic, an officer in the DB, had been mistakenly acquitted by trial judges who had misapplied the law. The ruling by the European Union-backed International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) could prove controversial in Serbia, whose government aspires to join the EU despite growing Russian influence in the country. |
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