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| Hours after tourist killed, France says does not rule out Syria strikes |
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 By John Irish and Andrew Callus PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Thursday it did not rule out joining U.S.-led air strikes on Syria, just hours after an Algerian Islamist group beheaded a French tourist in retaliation for French military action against Islamic State militants in Iraq. France has repeatedly said it would not take part in air action in Syria where Islamic State has its power base. On Thursday it struck its first targets in almost a week since joining the United States in raids against militants in Iraq. ...
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| FIFA candidate Champagne wants 2018/22 report made public |
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 ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne has joined the calls for the report into the turbulent bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to be made public. FIFA's ethics committee investigator Michael Garcia, who compiled the report, is also among those to have called for it to be published. "Fully supporting Michael Garcia's request to release his investigation report on WC 2018 and 2022," the Frenchman wrote on Twitter. "It is essential to protect the sanctity of the World Cup as a celebration of football and of our universality. ...
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| Yemen frees two suspected Hezbollah members after rebel advance -source |
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| By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen has freed two suspected members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement held for questioning about alleged ties to a Shi'ite Muslim insurgent group that has seized control of much of the capital Sanaa, a senior official said on Thursday. The takeover by the Shi'ite Houthi rebels came hours before a power-sharing accord was signed with other political parties providing for the creation of a viable new government. That effectively made the Houthis the main power brokers in Yemen, whose political, tribal and sectarian turmoil poses risks to No. ... |
| Estonia, Slovakia players banned worldwide over match-fixing |
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| ZURICH (Reuters) - Thirteen Estonian-based players and two from Slovakia, already suspended by their own respective federations for match-manipulation, have had their bans extended worldwide, soccer's governing body FIFA said on Thursday. FIFA said that two of the Estonian-based players have been provisionally banned until Dec. 31 and another 10 until March 31, 2015, as a part of an ongoing investigation started in 2011. ... |
| Pakistan policeman kills Christian accused of blasphemy |
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| By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani policeman shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old Briton Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was wounded in the attack in Rawalpindi, next to the capital, Islamabad. ... |
| Britain says arrests nine in operation against Islamist militants |
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| By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested nine men as part of an operation into Islamist-related militancy on Thursday, with media reporting the country's most high-profile radical Muslim preacher was among those held. Britain last month raised its international threat level to the second-highest classification of "severe", meaning an attack is considered highly likely, and Prime Minister David Cameron has said the Islamic State group battling for territory in Syria and Iraq poses the country's greatest ever security risk. ... |
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