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| Blatter set to win new term despite soccer corruption scandal | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer boss Sepp Blatter was expected to be re-elected on Friday, defying growing calls for him to step down in the face of corruption scandals engulfing the sport's governing body. Addressing delegates at FIFA's annual Congress in Switzerland, where members will later vote to decide the organisation's presidency, Blatter promised more transparency and urged members to remain unified. Europe, which accounts for all but three of the countries that have ever made it to a World Cup's final match, is particularly keen to banish the 79-year-old Swiss.
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| Islamic State claims blast killing four at Saudi mosque | |  By Maha El Dahan and Sami Aboudi ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed four people at a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the second attack claimed by the Sunni militant group in a week in the world's top oil-exporting country. The Interior Ministry said a car exploded outside al-Anoud mosque in Dammam during noon prayers on Friday, while witnesses said a suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in the mosque's parking lot when guards stopped him from entering. Residents circulated pictures of the body of a man believed to be the suicide bomber as well as pictures of black clouds of smoke billowing over a parking lot outside the mosque.
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| FIFA congress resumes after bomb threat in Zurich | |  Swiss police said on Friday they were investigating an anonymous bomb threat at the FIFA congress in Zurich that led authorities to search the premises. The threat was made by telephone to a Zurich-based newsroom on Friday morning, Zurich city police said, adding that no one had been evacuated from the congress. The premises have been cleared by the authorities," FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke told the congress after it resumed.
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| FIFA's culture needs to change says one of its own bosses | | | By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA's culture must change if it is to reclaim its credibility as an open and honest organisation, one of its own senior officials told delegates at its annual congress on Friday. After FIFA president Sepp Blatter had spoken at the start of proceedings, repeating his nautical analogies about steering the good ship FIFA back to calm waters, Domenico Scala, chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee, issued a stark warning. "A change of culture within FIFA is essential if the organisation is to eliminate improper conduct," the Swiss-Italian told delegates, adding that the change had to be articulated by football's leaders. |
| Belgium launches investigation into German and U.S. spying | | | Belgium has begun an investigation into reports that German and U.S. intelligence agencies spied on Belgian targets, the Belgian Justice Ministry said on Friday. Belgian media said on Friday Germany's BND intelligence agency and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had intercepted communications from Belgium and other countries. "Following these revelations the Belgian security agency has started an investigation to see whether Belgian targets were in fact the subject of these alleged spying activities," a spokeswoman for the Justice Ministry said. |
| Qatar defends 2022 World Cup bid, will comply with further probe if asked | | | Qatar defended its successful 2022 World Cup bid on Friday following corruption scandals in soccer's governing body FIFA and said it would carry on with plans to stage the event. Qatar's World Cup organising committee said in a statement Qatar had conducted its 2022 bid with integrity and to the highest ethical standards, but it would comply with further investigations into the award if asked. Qatar beat bids from Australia, Japan, the United States and South Korea. |
| Singapore probes match-fixing at SEA Games | | | By Julian Linden SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At the same time as soccer's world leaders were meeting in Switzerland vowing to clean up the game following the latest corruption cases, another scandal emerged, this time involving match-fixing in Asia. Singaporean authorities announced on Friday, at the exact same time that the FIFA Congress was taking place in Zurich, that they had arrested an alleged match-fixer as well as several co-conspirators following an investigation into upcoming soccer matches at the Southeast Asian Games. Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) did not identify any of the people who were arrested but said members of at least one visiting international team were helping officials in relation to the probe. |
| Swiss police investigate bomb threat at FIFA congress | | | Swiss police are investigating a bomb threat at the FIFA congress, a spokeswoman said on Friday. "I can confirm there has been a bomb threat against the FIFA congress, officers have been dispatched" the spokeswoman for the city police said. |
| Cyprus police probe Israel link in ammonium nitrate haul - media | | | Cypriot police suspect a man arrested on Wednesday was planning an attack on Israeli interests on the island after they found almost two tonnes of ammonium nitrate in his basement, newspapers reported on Friday. Authorities are investigating possible links to Lebanon's Iranian-backed Hezbollah group, which views Israel as its arch enemy, three Cypriot newspapers said on Friday. Police suspect Israeli interests were the target, the Simerini, Politis and Phileleftheros newspapers said. |
| Britain's Fraud Office examining information relating to possible FIFA corruption | |  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud Office said on Friday it was examining information relating to possible corruption at soccer's world governing body FIFA, which is in turmoil after several senior officials were arrested earlier this week. "The SFO continues actively to assess material in its possession and has made plain that it stands ready to assist ongoing international criminal investigations," a spokesman said. The SFO has not launched a formal criminal investigation. (Reporting by Neil Maidment; editing by Kate Holton)
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| S.Africa frees anti-apartheid hero murder mastermind | | | The right wing politician who masterminded the killing of a South African anti-apartheid hero was granted medical parole on Friday, setting aside an earlier decision by the justice minister to block his release. Clive Derby-Lewis, an ultra-right wing politician who masterminded the 1993 assassination of Communist Party leader Chris Hani in an attempt to trigger a race war, had been serving a life sentence for the murder. "The applicant has made out a case for placement on medical parole. |
| Suicide bomber, two people killed outside a Shi'ite Mosque in Saudi -witnesses | | | Three people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber tried to enter a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, witnesses said, the second attack of its kind in a week. A suicide bombing on May 22 killed 21 worshippers at a Shi'ite mosque in al-Qadeeh village in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Residents circulated pictures of the body of a man believed to be the suicide bomber as well as pictures of large black clouds of smoke billowing over a parking lot outside the mosque. |
| Russia, Qatar choice led to FIFA problems, says Blatter | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Scandal-plagued FIFA may have avoided its current problems if Russia and Qatar had not been chosen as hosts of the next two World Cups, President Sepp Blatter said on Friday. "But we cannot go back in time, we are not prophets, we cannot say what would have happened," added Blatter, who did not elaborate on his comments. Russia was chosen as the host nation of the 2018 World Cup and Qatar for 2022 at a single vote in Zurich in 2010.
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| Malaysia bars second Hong Kong democracy activist | |  Hong Kong lawmaker and democracy activist Leung Kwok-hung was denied entry to Malaysia on Friday, the second time this week the country has stopped a Hong Kong democracy activist from entering. Wong was denied entry on Tuesday, sparking concerns that Beijing may have put pressure on Kuala Lumpur. Leung and Wong both took part in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong last year that shut down key parts of the city for 79 days to demand China allow full democracy in the former British colony that returned to Chinese rule in 1997.
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