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| FIFA's Blatter comes out fighting despite scandal and divisions | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter came out fighting on Saturday as he began his fifth term in charge of soccer's governing body, implying that the United States timed the announcement of a major corruption probe to try to scupper his re-election bid. The 79-year-old Swiss comfortably won Friday's vote at a FIFA congress in Zurich, having secured the support of blocks of votes from Asia and Africa, which outweighed dissenters including Europe's powerful soccer body UEFA. One of his most fierce critics, English Football Association Chairman Greg Dyke, predicted further scandals before the end of Blatter's new four-year term.
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| EU criticises 'unjustified' Russian travel blacklist | | | By Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia has imposed an entry ban on 89 European politicians and military leaders, according to a list seen by Reuters, a move that has angered Europe and worsened its standoff with the West over Moscow's role in the Ukraine conflict. The list, which says it was compiled by the Russian foreign ministry and handed to a European Union delegation in Moscow this week, includes outspoken critics of Russia as well as military and intelligence officials. Since Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, the EU has imposed economic sanctions, visa bans and asset freezes on scores of Russian and Ukrainian citizens and organisations. |
| Police break up unsanctioned gay rally in central Moscow | |  Police broke up an unsanctioned gay rights rally in central Moscow on Saturday, detaining around 20 people, including anti-gay campaigners who attacked the activists. The campaigners had requested permission to hold a gay pride parade today, but Moscow authorities blocked the request for the tenth year in a row - an annual ritual that has come to symbolise Russian authorities' hostility to public expressions of support for gay rights. Activists at Saturday's meeting on Tverskaya Square near the city centre were heavily outnumbered by black-clad riot police who had lined the square in advance.
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| Gill rejects FIFA role after 'terribly damaging events' | |  English Football Association vice-chairman David Gill confirmed on Saturday he will not take up his post on FIFA's executive committee following the re-election of Sepp Blatter as president of soccer's world governing body. The former Manchester United chief executive was only elected two months ago for a four-year term but the 57-year-old did not attend Saturday's first executive committee meeting following Blatter's re-election to a fifth term. Blatter beat Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan in Friday's presidential election overshadowed by allegations of rampant corruption within FIFA.
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| Russia asks Britain to block auction of "stolen" painting | | | The Russian bureau of Interpol has sent a request to the British police to block the auction of a painting by a famous Russian artist because it was "stolen", Russia's Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The ministry said that the painting in question, "Evening in Cairo" by Ivan Aivazovsky, "was stolen in 1997 from a private collection in the city of Moscow". "That a painting of this scale and quality has not been on public view for over seventy years is remarkable and presents an exceptional opportunity for collectors of Aivazovsky's major works," the Sotheby's catalogue note said. |
| Several FIFA suspects want bail on health grounds - TagesAnzeiger | |  Several of the seven soccer officials arrested in Zurich on corruption charges in an investigation linked to FIFA are requesting bail on health grounds, Swiss newspaper TagesAnzeiger reported on Saturday. The seven individuals, who include FIFA Vice President Jeffrey Webb and the head of Costa Rica's soccer federation, Eduardo Li, are being held at undisclosed detention centres. The investigations into FIFA by U.S., Swiss and other law enforcement agencies have plunged soccer's governing body into the worst crisis in its 111-year history.
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| Myanmar lands seized migrant boat on island | | | A boat packed with more than 700 "boat people" seized off Myanmar's coast was stopped on a small island on Saturday, as officials gave mixed signals about its final destination. Myanmar's navy discovered the boat with 727 migrants off the country's southern coast on Friday, but have since been tight-lipped on the identity of those on board, as well as their fate. Myo Win, the township administrator of Hainggyi Island, in the country's south, told Reuters the boat was taken to nearby Leik Island and the migrants were kept on board while they were provided with food, water and medical help. |
| Gunmen kill 22 bus passengers in Pakistan attack | |  By Gul Yousufzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 passengers on Friday night after forcing them off buses travelling from the western city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, officials said. The assault in the province of Baluchistan occurred in the town of Mastung, around 40 km (25 miles) south of Quetta. "Fifteen to 20 armed men in three pickup trucks and wearing security uniforms kidnapped around 35 passengers," Sarfaraz Bugti, Baluchistan's home minister, told Reuters.
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