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| No criminal proceedings against Lanka officials in sex bribe | | | Three male officials have been identified in the sex bribe scandal that rocked Sri Lankan women's cricket but there are no grounds or evidence to justify criminal proceedings against them, the country's cricket board said on Thursday. Sri Lanka's sports ministry last week revealed an investigation had found that members of the national women's team had been forced to perform sexual favours for officials in order to earn or keep their places in the squad. Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said its has received the report which mentions cases of sexual harassments in 2013 and 2014 and much of it was corroborated in another report the board had separately commissioned. |
| Prince Ali says FIFA crisis "cannot continue" | |  Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein, the man challenging Sepp Blatter for the most powerful job in world soccer, said the latest corruption scandal involving the sport's governing body FIFA was proof that change was needed. An outspoken critic of Blatter who has vowed to clean up the sport if he can oust him as president, Prince Ali said was deeply saddened by the news that six high-ranking soccer officials, including two FIFA vice-presidents, had been arrested by Swiss police and detained pending extradition to the United States. "Today is a sad day for football," Prince Ali said in the first of two statements he issed on Wednesday.
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| World soccer rocked as top officials held in U.S., Swiss graft cases | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Seven of the most powerful figures in global soccer faced extradition to the United States on corruption charges after being arrested on Wednesday in Switzerland, where authorities also announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups. The world's most popular sport was plunged into turmoil after U.S. and Swiss authorities announced separate inquiries into the activities of the game's powerful governing body. U.S. authorities said nine football officials and five sports media and promotions executives faced corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes.
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| Britain's Queen Elizabeth sets in train Cameron's EU referendum plan | |  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth set in motion Prime Minister David Cameron's plans for a European Union membership referendum on Wednesday as he faced pressure to explain when it will be held and what changes to the EU he wants beforehand. Cameron, who says he would prefer to stay inside a reformed EU but isn't "ruling anything out" if it fails to change, was re-elected on May 7 on a pledge to reshape ties with the bloc before allowing Britons to vote on whether to stay or leave. Donning her crown as she sat on a gilded throne in a packed House of Lords, the 89-year-old queen outlined the referendum plans in a speech written for her by Cameron's Conservative government as she opened parliament with a customary display of pomp.
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| Erdogan's war on critical media heats up ahead of Turkish election | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A veteran U.S. journalist and author said on Wednesday President Tayyip Erdogan had blocked his honorary citizenship and declared him an enemy of the state, as the Turkish leader's war on critical media intensifies ahead of a June election. In what opponents see as part of a campaign to muzzle dissent, Erdogan has repeatedly berated news outlets including the New York Times and Turkish daily Hurriyet, while a prosecutor this month sought to shut two TV stations, seen as opposed to the government, on terrorism-related charges. Erdogan is constitutionally barred from party politics as head of state, but has been making podium speeches across Turkey ahead of the June 7 polls in the hope the ruling AK Party will win a big enough majority to hand him greater powers.
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| Adidas urges FIFA to up game on transparency and compliance | |  German sportswear company Adidas called on soccer's world governing body FIFA to do more to establish transparent compliance standards after several of its officials were arrested on Wednesday over suspected corruption. "The Adidas group is fully committed to creating a culture that promotes the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we expect the same from our partners," Adidas said in an emailed statement. "Following today's news, we can therefore only encourage FIFA to continue to establish and follow transparent compliance standards in everything they do." Adidas, associated with FIFA since the 1950s, lined up with fellow FIFA sponsors Sony, Visa and Coca-Cola last June to demand soccer's rulers deal thoroughly with allegations of bribery to secure the 2022 World Cup for Qatar.
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| Desperate migrant pays for baby to be drugged, smuggled to Myanmar - researchers | | | By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Burmese woman working in Thailand hired a man to sedate and smuggle her 3-month-old baby across the border to relatives in Myanmar, researchers said, describing a common "service" for desperate migrant mothers fearful of losing their jobs. Researchers whose study was published on Wednesday surveyed 114 women migrants in the six countries along the Mekong River about their health, and found that many went to extremes to end pregnancies or send babies home because of problems at work. "A lot of people noted they will get fired when they get pregnant when they are abroad... they will get fired and go home," said Rebecca Napier-Moore, who wrote the report for the Mekong Migration Network, an advocacy umbrella group of organisations. |
| EU judges jail 11 ex-Kosovo Albanian guerrillas for war crimes | | | By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) - European Union judges in Kosovo sentenced 11 former Kosovo Albanian guerrillas, two of them close to ex-prime minister Hashim Thaci, to prison terms on Wednesday for war crimes committed during Kosovo's 1998-99 pro-independence uprising. In two parallel trials, judges from the EU police and justice mission said atrocities were committed against Kosovar civilians held in a camp run by the then-Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which fought Serbian security forces in the war. Political killings of Kosovo Albanians by their own kin were common in the former Serbian province during and after the war, sometimes over allegations of collaboration with Belgrade. |
| Woman accused of witchcraft axed to death in Papua New Guinea - missionary | | | By Alisa Tang BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police in Papua New Guinea vowed to find the men who axed to death a woman accused of using witchcraft to spark a measles outbreak in the country's remote jungle highlands, a missionary said on Wednesday after meeting authorities. The woman, Mifila, was one of four women accused with 13 of their family members of using sorcery to cause measles deaths last November in the village of Fiyawena, in Enga province, said Lutheran missionary Anton Lutz. Human Rights Watch earlier this year named Papua New Guinea as one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman due to gender based violence. |
| Niger says arrested more than 600 people for Boko Haram links since February | |  Niger has detained and charged 643 people since February for their links to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Security Minister Hassoumi Massaoudou told parliament. Niger has deployed 3,000 soldiers to a joint regional force formed with Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria in order to quash the Boko Haram insurgency, in which thousands have been killed. Several Boko Haram networks and sleeper cells have been dismantled in Niger's southern Diffa region, which is on the border with Nigeria, since a state of emergency was declared there in February and troops deployed, Massaoudou said.
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| Malaysia detains 12 police in people-smuggling camps probe | |  By Al-Zaquan Amer Hamzah KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Twelve Malaysian police officials have been held on suspicion of links to people-smuggling camps where authorities have uncovered nearly 140 graves believed to hold the bodies of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, a government minister said on Wednesday. Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar was speaking the day after police forensic teams began exhuming bodies from the graves, discovered around 28 camps at six locations along a 50-km (30-mile) stretch of the border with Thailand. "Although there are 139 graves, we have not managed to dig up all of them," he told reporters at Malaysia's parliament.
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| Factbox - Soccer officials arrested in Switzerland | |  REUTERS - Brief biographies of the nine current and former FIFA officials indicted on Wednesday for racketeering, conspiracy and corruption. ...
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| Pakistan seeks FBI help to investigate firm accused of faking diplomas | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has asked U.S. authorities to help it investigate Axact, a software firm accused of earning millions of dollars from the international sale of bogus university degrees online, officials said on Wednesday. Pakistani police also arrested the head of Axact in the early hours of Wednesday following a raid on the company's diploma printing operations, and registered a criminal case against him, investigators said. The interior ministry wrote to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday seeking assistance.
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| Swiss justice office says has blocked bank accounts in FIFA probe | |  The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said it had blocked accounts at several banks in Switzerland after police arrested some of the most powerful figures in global soccer on Wednesday in U.S. and Swiss corruption cases. "Further to three U.S. requests for legal assistance, the FOJ has also ordered the blocking of accounts at several banks in Switzerland through which bribes are claimed to have flowed as well as the seizure of related bank documents," the office said in a statement. The FOJ said a further wanted soccer official had been arrested on a request from the United States and named Eugenio Figueredo, Eduardo Li, Jose Maria Marin, Julio Rocha, Costas Takkas, Jeffrey Webb, and Rafael Esquivel as the seven officials currently in detention pending extradition.
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| FIFA says Blatter to seek 5th term despite arrests | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's governing body FIFA called the arrest of six of its leading officials on bribery charges a "difficult moment" but said it would not derail President Sepp Blatter's bid to win a fifth term in an election on Friday. At a news conference in Zurich, FIFA spokesman Walter De Gregorio struck a defiant tone, saying a criminal investigation into FIFA's awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups was unrelated to the looming leadership vote. It confirms that we are on the right track." Asked if the election of the FIFA president would go ahead, he added: "There was never such an idea to postpone the congress nor the election, one thing has nothing to do with the other." Several high-ranking soccer officials, including two vice-presidents of FIFA, were arrested by Swiss police on Wednesday and detained pending extradition to the United States.
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| Swiss open criminal proceedings tied to 2018, 2022 World Cup bids | | | By Joshua Franklin and Alice Baghdjian ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities have opened criminal proceedings against individuals on suspicion of mismanagement and money laundering related to the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA soccer World Cups in Russia and Qatar. Switzerland's Office of the Attorney General (OAG) also said in a statement on Wednesday it had seized data and documents stored in computer systems at FIFA. The OAG said the criminal proceedings, which were opened on March 10, are separate to a U.S. criminal investigation into the allocation of media, marketing and sponsorship rights for soccer tournaments. |
| FIFA arrests will not affect Russia 2018 World Cup - Russian soccer official | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The arrests of officials from soccer world governing body FIFA will not affect Russia's hosting of the 2018 World Cup, an official at the Russian Football Union told Reuters on Wednesday. General Secretary Anatoly Vorobyov also said that current FIFA president Sepp Blatter was likely to be re-elected for a fifth term despite the arrests. "Looking at how things stand, Blatter is without doubt the odds-on favourite," Vorobyov told Reuters by phone. (Reporting by Dmitry Rogovitskiy, Writing by Jack Stubbs, editing by John Stonestreet) |
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