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| FIFA presidential vote goes to second round | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - Voting in the election to lead soccer's world governing body FIFA will go to a second round after neither incumbent President Sepp Blatter nor Jordanian challenger Prince Ali bin Al Hussein got two thirds of the vote on Friday. Blatter secured 133 votes and Prince Ali won 73 at FIFA's annual Congress in Switzerland. (Reporting by Mike Collett and Brian Homewood; Editing by Alison Williams)
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| Blatter takes the plaudits in final FIFA election pitch | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Incumbent FIFA president Sepp Blatter used all the tricks of the old master he is after 17 years in the job to woo delegates at the FIFA Congress when he made his final election pitch before voting began for a new president on Friday. The 79-year-old Swiss, who has been president since 1998 and is seeking a fifth term, gave a far more assured delivery than his challenger, 39-year-old Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan. Prince Ali looked more nervous and his speech was a little lighter on substance than Blatter, who got a round of applause when he told the 209 delegates he "did not want to leave them".
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| Corrected - Clashes force nearly 60,000 Malians from homes over last month - U.N. | | | (Corrects 10th paragraph to show UN accused of taking sides) BAMAKO (Reuters) - Fighting in northern Mali has forced nearly 60,000 people to flee their homes over the last four weeks, a United Nations aid agency said on Friday, highlighting the lack of peace despite a partial deal being signed earlier this month. UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, said the vast majority of the newly displaced were from the Timbuktu region, which has seen a string of clashes involving various groups of gunmen. Civilians said they were fleeing their homes because they feared violence as well as force recruitment by armed groups, UNHCR said. |
| Brazilian soccer confederation head says does not plan to resign | |  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Marco Polo Del Nero, the president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, said he did not plan to resign and "had nothing to do" with corruption, at a press conference on Friday. Del Nero left a gathering of world soccer association FIFA in Switzerland ahead of the group's presidential election, following the arrest of nine senior FIFA officials including former CBF chief Jose Maria Marin. (Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier, Editing by Franklin Paul)
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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 began voting 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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| Man pleads guilty to killing French street artist in Detroit | | | (Reuters) - One of three men accused of killing a 23-year-old French street artist in Detroit has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in an agreement that calls for a sentence of up to 40 years in prison, prosecutors said on Friday. Jasin Curtis, 18, of Detroit, will be sentenced on June 12 before Judge Bruce Morrow in Wayne County Circuit Court, prosecutors said. The sentence is to be served consecutive to a two-year term for a firearms count, prosecutors said. |
| Abolish penalty shoot-outs, Cameron jokes in Germany | |  FIFA should not only do away with Sepp Blatter but put an end to penalty shoot-outs as well, British Prime Minister David Cameron joked on Friday at a news conference in Berlin with Germany's Angela Merkel. After telling a news conference that the FIFA president should step aside over allegations of corruption in soccer's world governing body, Cameron offered a self-deprecating joke about England's penalty shoot-out trauma in big tournaments, where they almost always lose -- and often to Germany. "I don't think there's anything else to add on the footballing issue -- though, of course, perhaps it's an opportunity to say that we should have no more penalty shoot-outs," Cameron deadpanned.
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| FIFA suspects face quick extradition to U.S., Swiss experts say | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - It will probably be a matter of just months before seven senior FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland can be extradited to the United States to face corruption charges, Swiss legal experts said on Friday. The move sent shock waves through world soccer's governing body FIFA and its sponsors. All have contested extradition, but under a bilateral treaty the proceedings are relatively straight-forward, even if defendants have the right to appeal along the way, experts say.
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