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| FIFA elects Swiss Infantino to lead it out of era of scandal | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA, the sport's world governing body, out of years of corruption and scandal after being elected president to succeed his Swiss compatriot Sepp Blatter. "We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the world will be proud of us," the 45-year-old law graduate, who for the last seven years has been the leading administrator for Europe's governing body, told an extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zurich. After a first round of voting in which he narrowly beat Asian Football Confederation President Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Infantino appeared to gather up almost all the votes that had been cast for the two trailing candidates.
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| Highlights from the FIFA congress | |  The first round voting figures are: Gianni Infantino 88 votes, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa 85, Prince Ali bin al-Hussein 27, Jerome Champagne 7. 12.15. Gianni Infantino takes to the stage, saying he wants to speak from the heart, so needs to speak Italian, before rattling through French, Spanish, Portuguese and German before settling on English for the bulk of his main speech.
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| FIFA passes reform package in bid to shake off scandals | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's world governing body approved the deepest reforms in its 112-year history on Friday in an attempt to put years of scandal and crisis behind it and transform itself into a trusted, modern sporting organisation. FIFA delegates voted by 179 votes to 22 to accept the reforms, which include replacing the Executive Committee with a 36-member FIFA Council, and limiting the president and other senior officials to three terms of four years. A new professional general secretariat, akin to a company's executive board, will handle the business side of FIFA, leaving the 36-member Council, elected by national member associations and including at least six women, to focus on broad matters of policy and strategy.
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| Man sought by Israel dies at Palestinian mission in Bulgaria | |  A Palestinian who escaped from Israeli custody after being convicted of a 1986 murder has died at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday. Police sealed off the mission building in the capital as an investigation began into the death of Omar el-Nayef, who was jailed along with two other men for killing Jewish ultra-orthodox seminary student, Eliahu Amedi, in Jerusalem. Prosecutors said in an initial statement they had been alerted by a representative of the Palestinian mission in Bulgaria "about a man who died as a result of violence" but a spokeswoman for the prosecutors later said no signs of violence were found on his body.
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| Kansas mass shooting suspect had been served protection order | |  The man suspected of killing three people at the Kansas lawnmower factory where he worked had been served a protection order 90 minutes before his shooting spree, which also wounded 14 people, authorities said on Friday. "The man was not going to stop shooting," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a news conference on Friday. "The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter." Walton described the officer as a hero, saying there was many as 300 people in the Excel Industries factory where the worst of the rampage took place as employees were beginning the day's second shift.
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| Turkey turns off independent TV channel on 'terrorist' charge | |  Turkey's satellite provider Turksat halted broadcasts of IMC TV at the request of an Ankara prosecutor investigating whether the channel supported a "terrorist" group, Eyup Burc said. "In Turkey, everything contrary to the official view is tossed in to the terrorism bag," Burc told Reuters, denying any ties with terror networks. The plug was pulled on IMC mid-broadcast during a live interview with Can Dundar and Erdem Gul, two prominent journalists who were freed pending trial earlier on Friday after spending 92 days in prison.
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| Venezuelan soccer official Esquivel agrees to U.S. extradition | |  Venezuelan soccer official Rafael Esquivel has agreed to be extradited from Switzerland to face charges in the United States in an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption in the sport, the Swiss government said on Friday. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice said Esquivel, the former president of Venezuela's football federation, withdrew his appeal against the extradition and would be escorted by police to the United States within 10 days. Since then, more high-ranking soccer officials have been indicted in a sweeping U.S. probe alleging kickback and bribery schemes related to the marketing of the sport.
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| Gang jailed for sex crimes in English town at centre of abuse scandal | |  Five people were jailed on Friday for multiple sex crimes against young girls in Rotherham, the northern English town that hit the headlines two years ago when it was revealed that as many as 1,400 children had been abused by gangs. The group, which included three British Asian brothers, their uncle and two white women, systematically carried out the sexual exploitation of 15 victims, aged between 11 and 21, over a period of 16 years from 1987, prosecutors said. "The impact of your offending upon the victims, their families and indeed the wider community has been devastating," judge Sarah Wright said during sentencing at Sheffield Crown Court.
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| Bangladesh police arrest three more suspected of killing Hindu priest | | | Bangladesh's police arrested three more men on Friday suspected of killing of a Hindu priest, the latest incident of increasing Islamist violence in the south Asian nation. The three men are members of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), police said, and join three other suspects in custody who have been charged over Sunday's deadly attack. The six are accused of slitting the throat of the priest, shooting and injuring two devotees and setting off homemade bombs at a Hindu temple in northern district of Panchagarh. |
| Kurds say investigating suspected Islamic State chemical attack in Iraq | | | ERBIL (Reuters) - Kurdish authorities said on Friday they were investigating a suspected chemical attack by Islamic State militants against peshmerga fighters in northwestern Iraq this week. Dozens of peshmerga and civilians were treated for nausea and vomiting after homemade rockets, that appeared to have contained a chemical substance, were fired at them in the Sinjar area on Feb. 25, the Kurdistan Region Security Council said on its official Twitter account. (Reporting by Isabel Coles; Editing by Louise Ireland) |
| Millions vote in Iran poll set to shape post-sanctions era | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Millions of Iranians voted in high-stake elections on Friday that could shift the balance of power within the hardline-controlled Islamic elite by ushering in a reformist comeback or help conservatives tighten their grip on power. Both are currently in the hands of hardliners.
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| Tear gas and petrol bombs disrupt Kosovo presidential vote | |  By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - Lawmakers threw tear gas cannisters in Kosovo's parliament and protesters outside threw petrol bombs at the building to try to stop the election of a president they say has given too much power to the ethnic-Serb minority. Opposition parties want parliament to suspend the vote, which may make Foreign Minister Hashim Thaci president, protesting that he helped broker an agreement with Serbia on more local autonomy for Kosovo's Serbs. Four hours into Friday's session, led by Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), opposition lawmakers threw three tear gas canisters in the chamber, prompting the speaker, Kadri Veseli, to eject 11 MPs.
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| Syria opposition agrees to two-week truce - statement | |  The Syrian opposition said on Friday armed groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad would respect a two-week week truce beginning at midnight, but said the government and its allies must not launch attacks on the pretext of fighting terrorism. "The High Negotiations Committee confirms the agreement of the Free Syrian Army factions and the armed opposition to a temporary truce from midnight Saturday," an HNC statement said. The HNC said the government and its allies must not use the "proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism".
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| Tokyo Sexwale pulls out before first round of FIFA presidential vote | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Tokyo Sexwale withdrew from the FIFA presidential race minutes before the vote on Friday, announcing his decision at the very end of his candidate's speech. With only four people, it is your problem now," he told delegates at the extraordinary FIFA Congress. "Pressures, media, litigation, the world is waiting out there, they think this is the end of FIFA." Quoting late South African president Nelson Mandela, he said: "When your house is under attack, when we are subjected to the kind of things we are seeing, it is the not the right moment to start a fire in your house." There has been speculation throughout Sexwale's low-key campaign that he could pull out, but he began his speech by saying: "I am a soldier and I die with my boots on." Sexwale had not been backed by his own African soccer confederation, with CAF making public in January its support of Asian confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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| In Indonesia, an Oscar-nominated film reopens old wounds | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's first film production to be nominated for an Oscar is at once a source of national pride and of shame for the world's third-largest democracy. Up for best documentary at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, the film has forced many to confront one of the darkest periods in Indonesia's history and remains banned from commercial cinemas. "Successive governments have failed to address the events of 1965 as a lesson that needs to be learned by the nation," said Muhammad Nurkhoiron of the national commission on human rights.
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| Biden to introduce Lady Gaga at Oscars, highlight effort against sexual assault | | | Vice President Joe Biden will take the stage at the Academy Awards show on Sunday to introduce Lady Gaga for her performance of "Til It Happens to You," an Oscar-nominated song about sexual assault on college campuses from the film "The Hunting Ground." Biden is a long-time advocate against sexual assault who authored the Violence Against Women Act. Biden will attend the awards show with his wife, Jill. |
| Philippines may ban pop singer Madonna for disrespect to flag - report | |  American singer Madonna may face a ban in the Philippines for disrespecting its flag in her concerts this week in the capital Manila, a domestic broadcaster said on Friday, citing a historical commission official. "She ridiculed our flag," the official, Teodoro Atienza, told radio station dzBB, adding that Madonna violated a law that prohibits the wearing of the Philippine flag "in whole, or in part, as a costume or uniform". The singer and concert producers could be held liable for the violation even if they were unaware of the law, said Atienza, who is chief of the heraldry section of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
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